The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

This study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the author shows how the distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century, became a feature of Greek society, and continued into the twentieth century.Paul Sant Cassia is the author of 'The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521400817 and ISBN 0521400813.